Necktie holder



Mar 1958 J. A. LOEWINSOHN NECKTIE HOLDER Filed July 16, 1956 INVENTOR .3. dasepzz. v4,

ATTORNEY United States Patent 2,826,759 define an upwardly projecting tongue 7. The tongue NECKTIE HOLDER normally lies in the plane of the disk and by reason of its resilient nature it is capable of being flexed outwardly 30591111 Loewillsohn, Atlanta, of the disk, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 4, to admit the shirt button into the slot 6. Apphcafion July 1956 Sena] 597974 In the use of the device, the necktie is drawn through 5 Claimsthe collar of the shirt and knotted in the usual manner with the two free ends of the necktie overlying the shirt front. The underlying end of the necktie is passed through the loop of the cord 3 and the cord is stretched This invention relates to necktie hol o the yp so that the disk overlies a button B on the shirt front. having means adapted to engage a button of the shirt By pressing the disk 5 against the button the tongue 7 with which it is worn to retain the free ends Of a knotted yields to pass the button through the slot after which tie smoothly in place close to the shirt front. the tongue springs back to yieldingly engage the stitching An important object of the invention is to provide a by whi h th button is sewed to the shirt, The cord necktie holder of the kind disclosed in my Patent No. is thus held in slightly stretched condition and retains 2,013,061 dated September 3, 1935, incorporating imthe two free ends of the necktie snugly and smoothly proved means for attaching the tie to the shirt button, such against the shirt. To detach the tie-holder from the improved attaching means comprising a flat disk of stiflly shirt it is only necessary to exert a slight pull upon the flexible material connected by a stretchable cord to the disk to cause the tongue 7 to flex inwardly to allow pasrear face of the outer one of the two free ends of the sage of the button through the slot. necktie and capable of being snapped over a shirt button. While the button-engaging edge of the tongue 7 is Another object of the invention is to provide an attachshown as defining a straight edge, which is the preferred ing means of the above character which is simple and inform of the device, this may, if desired, be modified to expensive in construction and which avoids the possiprovide a slight concavity to insure self-centering of the bility of breaking the cord or pulling the button off the tongue with respect to the shirt button while the device shirt in the event an outward tug is exerted upon the is being worn. necktie, such as is likely to occur through failure to dis- Also, instead of permanently securing the cord to the connect the disk from the shirt button when the necktie necktie by means of stitches, other securing means may is being removed from the shirt. be adopted, such as the hooks described in my Patent No.

Still another object of the invention is to provide an 2,013,061, whereby the necktie holder may be manuattaching means of the above character which may be factured and sold as a separate article of wear for depermanently connected to the necktie and which will not tachable assembly with a necktie. In the case when the interfere with the laundering or dry cleaning of the necknecktie holder is permanently attached to a necktie, the tie. thin flexible disk does not interfere with the washing or Other objects and advantages will be apparent from dry cleaning of the necktie. the following detailed description of a preferred embodi- 40 While I have described and illustrated a preferred ment of the invention, reference being made to the acembodiment of the invention, manifestly various changes companying drawing in which: in construction and design may be made in my necktie Figure 1 is a front of a necktie as it is normally worn holder without departing from the spirit of my invention with a section through the necktie being broken away as defined in the following claims. to show the front of a shirt and the means for attaching I claim: the necktie to a shirt button; 1. A holder for four-in-hand neckties comprising a Figure 2 is a side view of the necktie, shirt and attachflexible elastic cord defining a loop having its free ends ing means of Figure l; f adapted to be secured to the rear face of one end of a Figure 3 is a detail plan view of the necktie attacheck ie d a d of thin, stiffly-fleXible material slidably ing means; and strung upon the cord, said disk having a slot extending Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view through the disk taken horizontally crosswise of the disk and a tongue extendon the line 4-4 of Figure 3. ing vertically into the slot and normally lying in the plane In the drawing the two overlapping lower ends 1 and of the disk but flexible out of the plane of the disk. 1a of a conventional four-in-hand tie are shown over- 2- A necktie holder as set forth in claim 1 in which lying the front of a shirt 2. A flexible cord 3 is secured the cord is Composed of stretchable textile materialto the rear face of the outer end 1 of the necktie, the 3. A necktie holder as set forth in claim 1 in which the two free ends of the cord being stitched to the necktie a disk is made of a plastic. I spaced distance apart and the midportion of the cord 4. A necktie holder as set forth in claim 1 in which passing through a pair of relatively widely spaced apart the cord is permanently secured to a necktie. perforations 4 and 4a in the edge of a thin disk 5 in a 5. A necktie holder as set forth in claim 1 in which the manner such that the disk is freely slidable upon the cord passes through a pair of relatively widely spaced cord. By providing a pair of apertures 4 and 4a instead apart apertures in the disk located above the slot. of a single aperture, the cord is prevented from twisting together, which would interfere with the stretch of the References Cited m the file of thls Patent cord. The cord is preferably made of nylon or other UNITED STATES PATENTS textile material having a limited amount of elasticity or 11258572 Hutchinson Mal. 5, 1918 stretch but which possesses sufiieient strength to resist 1,523,694 Kulow Jam 20, 1925 being eas ily f by tugs and s trains- 2,013,061 Loewinsohn Sept, 3, 1935 The (118k 5 is preferably of circular shape and com- 2072 724 Weisbaum Mar 2 1937 posed of a stiffiy-fiexible material, such as Celluloid or i n other plastic or possibly sheet metal. The disk is punched FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain Dec. 10, 1936 out between its marginal edges to produce a generally 457,994

2,826,759 Patented Mar. 18, 1958 rectangular slot 6 extending horizontally across the disk:

parallel to a line connecting the perforations 4 and 4a and terminating in two vertical slots 6a which together 

